If you are familiar with this, can you please give me some information about the mural commission, the communist controversy surrounding it, and why it was taken down!? Thanks!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Position:Home>Visual Arts> Anyone familiar with Rivera's Man at the Crossroads mural done for the RockeQuestion: Anyone familiar with Rivera's Man at the Crossroads mural done for the Rockefellers!? If you are familiar with this, can you please give me some information about the mural commission, the communist controversy surrounding it, and why it was taken down!? Thanks!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It was commissioned by the Rockefellers for the Rockefeller centre, and depicted "new frontiers" in various ways!. The work was completed and paid for, and immediately hidden, before being destroyed Feb 9 1934, by a gang of workers with pickaxes!. The reason!? There was a small portrait of Lenin in the picture!. Didn't even look much like him, in my opinion!.!.!. you can see the mural at http://fbuch!.com/crossroa!.htm and judge for yourself whether Rivera's work would have destroyed Western Capitalism!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |